Profecto Quotes & Sayings

Est etiam, ubi profecto damnum praestet facere, quam lucrum - there are occasions when it is certainly better to lose than to gain — Plautus

What's the difference between a pickpocket and a peeping tom? A pickpocket snatches watches. — Redd Foxx

Leaders don't correct people to success as much as believe them to it. — Orrin Woodward

Everyone gets tested. You never see it coming. But sooner or later the moment arrives and you have to account for yourself. — Adam Baker

Some boats are rotten in the ports; some boats shine in the hard journeys! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive — G. Edward Griffin

It is the normal state of the human heart to try to build its identity around something besides God. — Soren Kierkegaard

Socialism has no moral justification whatsoever; poor people are not morally superior to rich people, nor are they owed anything by rich people simply because of their lack of success. Charity is not a socialist concept - it is a religious one, an acknowledgment of God's sovereignty over property, a sovereignty the Left utterly rejects. — Ben Shapiro

There is indeed a God that hears and sees whate'er we do.
[Lat., Est profecto deus, qui, quae nos gerimus, auditque et videt.] — Plautus

I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near. — Margaret Thatcher

I wanted to be a doctor when I was little, so I'm okay with blood and guts. — Jennifer Lawrence

But assuredly Fortune rules in all things; she raised to eminence or buries in oblivion everything from caprice rather than from well-regulated principle.
[Lat., Sed profecto Fortuna in omni re dominatur; ea res cunctas ex lubidine magis, quam ex vero, celebrat, obscuratque.] — Sallust

Virtue is the highest reward. Virtue truly goes before all things. Liberty, safety, life, property, parents, country, and children are protected and preserved. Virtue has all things in herself; he who has virtue has all things that are good attending him.
[Lat., Virtus praemium est optimum.
Virtus omnibus rebus anteit profecto.
Libertas, salus, vita, res, parentes,
Patria et prognati tutantur, servantur;
Virtus omnia in se habet; omnia assunt bona, quem penes est vertus.] — Plautus

The danger to the country, to Europe, to her vast Empire, which is involved in having all these great interests entrusted to the shaking hand of an old, wild, and incomprehensible man of 82, is very great! — Queen Victoria

I know that we women are all justly accounted praters; they say in the present day that there never was in any age such a wonder to be found as a dumb woman.
[Lat., Nam multum loquaces merito omnes habemus,
Nec mutam profecto repertam ullam esse
Hodie dicunt mulierem ullo in seculo.] — Plautus

Remember, I know what you are inside. Just a scared boy who tried to kill himself when he was too weak to save his wife from hanging. — Pierce Brown

There is a musical rhythm to great writing, especially if it's performed correctly. — Richard LaGravenese